While databases offer very efficient ways to store data and query them using query languages, the most flexible way of data processing is writing your own program to manipulate data. In many cases, ...

This code displays a colorful Julia Fractal. It uses the kandinsky and math modules. This code displays a text output of the Mandelbrot fractal. The text is colored, to achieve this the kandinsky ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2019. Contributed by Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, August 27, 2021 (sent ...

There is a growing literature concerning robotics and creativity. Although some authors claim that robotics in classrooms may be a promising new tool to address the creativity crisis in school, we ...

The study of plant development requires increasingly powerful modeling tools to help understand and simulate the growth and functioning of plants. In the last decade, the formalism of L-systems has ...

Tetrapods have different numbers of vertebrae in the neck, torso, and lower parts of their bodies. These numbers can follow patterns anticipated by the relationship between vertebrae and the highly ...